History Major

The Bachelor of Arts (BA) in History requires 33 hours of coursework. These hours include 12 hours of introductory history, all of which meet the University Diversity Requirement:

• HIST 11050  History of Civilization I
• HIST 11051 History of Civilization II
• HIST 12070  History of the United States: The Formative Period
• HIST 12071 History of the United States: The Modern Period
• HIST 32050  Majors are also required to take The Historian's Craft. This course fulfills the University's writing-intensive requirement.
  

The additional 18 hours required for the major must be taken in upper-division courses. They must include at least 6 hours of United States history, 6 hours of European history since 1500, and 6 hours of African, Asian, Latin America, ancient, or medieval history.